Summer Temp - Farm Store

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Description:

This temporary summer position provides seasonal support to the Farm Store team under the direct supervision of the Assistant Manager and Store Manager. The role focuses on assisting with routine food preparation, cleaning, and basic customer service tasks to support daily operations during peak season. Summer Temporary employees perform assigned tasks and work under guidance when preparing food items and assisting customers.

Your Key Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Regular and predictable attendance is essential. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assist with food preparation tasks such as washing, chopping, portioning, and assembling ingredients according to established recipes and instructiohns.
• Support daily cooking and baking activities by completing assigned preparation steps under supervision.
• Perform cleaning and sanitation duties, including washing dishes, wiping surfaces, sweeping, and mopping floors.
• Stock and restock products and ingredients as directed.
• Assist with receiving deliveries and organizing products under staff guidance.
• Provide friendly and courteous customer service, referring detailed product or operational questions to a supervisor.
• Follow all food safety and sanitation standards.

What You'll Bring:

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Some high school preferred

• 1 year experience in a kitchen, bakery and grocery setting involving cooking, baking from scratch daily and presenting items for sale to the general public preferred.

• Knowledge and ability to utilize kitchen tools such as knives, food processor, blender, stove, ovens as well as bakery machinery such as mixers and dough sheeters.

• None

• Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds
• Able to comfortably lift 25-50 lbs that may include flour, meats and equipment.
• Able to stand and walk for extended periods of time.

• Able to work in environments that can, at times, be hot such as kitchens, bakery.
• Able to work in cold environments such as the butchery, walk in freezers and coolers if needed.

• Able to operate dough mixers, food processors, sharp knives, meat grinders if necessary.

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only ten federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2025. Washington Monthly has named Berea College the #1 Best College in the nation in its 2025 College Guide. Berea College appears in their rankings as #1 College (overall): Best College for your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, #1 Best-in Class College, #1 Liberal Arts College and #1 Best Bang for the Buck Southern College.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team.


Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

This position is not eligible for benefits, however, Berea College still offers unique position opportunities you can read more about below.

Our Unique Culture:
Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.

Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

Labor Supervision:
In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.